The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-03-16
Ths 9aily Bnllstin.
WEDNESDAY. MAR. 16. 1887.
DEATH OF A n. Z. STATESMAN.

Profound sorrow will spread like
q pail from one end of New Zealand
to the other, when it is known that
James Macandrew is dead. Him
self man full of human sympathies,
he ever enjoyed the warmest SYM
patty of every man he came in con-
tact with, and it is not any exagger-
alton TO say that there never has
been a public man in New Zealand
whose death has caused, or would
cause more general and heartfelt
grief. In Otago, we venture to
think that his loss will seem ire
parable, and, though he was q
strong party man, there is not a man
Of any note in the province which he
loved and served so well, who will
not feel the loss as that Of per-
sonal friend, and who will not feel
that Otago is not the same, when
Macandrew is gone. To many in
this North Island, Mr.. Macandrew
appeared as so entirely of Otago as
to have no public sympathies be-
yond. But when he was called to
occupy high position in the Gov
eminent of the colony, it was seen
that his sympathies were contermin-
Gus with his sphere of duty, and no
one ever questioned the absolute
impartiality of the Minister, or the
sincerity of his anxiety and zeal for
the whole of the colony. Indeed to
those who knew the scope of his
ideas it was always apparent that
his plans contemplated the benefit Of
the whole colony, and though his
singular love for the province and
city which were the scene of his
principal labors prompted him to
regard them as deserving of the first
place, neither locality nor personal
interest bounded his sympathies,
and probably beyond any other
public man in New Zealand he was
the single-minded, self-sacriticing,
and devoted servant of his fellow
man. Fortune over and over again,
time, labor, pains, he sacrificed
freely for the good of others, and
though made poor by his unceasing
devotion to the service Of the public
his hand has freely given to hun
dreds the means, Which, with his
advice and guidance, has led them
not only to independence, but in
many cases to wealth; and when
the people of Otago begin to reckon
up, as we are sure they are busy
doing now, all the enterprises that
they owe to Mr.. Macandrew, it will
be found that there is hardly ar
institution there but tossed about in
his busy brain for years before he
succeeded in persuading others tc
take 1T up. With all this Mr.. Mac
andrew preserved, what perhaps
is not very common with leading
public men, a simple and unassum'
ing piety, which, though never OBJ.
trusive, was never absent. II will
be recollected that it was he that
proposed on the first meeting of the
New Zealand Parliament in Auck-
land, that they should recognize the
hand of God in having given them
their privileges, and that they should
ask His guidance now that they were
beginning the history of new
nation, and that from the principle
then established with some difficulty
and considerable opposition, the
custom Of opening Parliament witt
prayer has been maintained to this
day. In fact, in the deceased states
man there was combination o.
qualities rarely found in public life
absolute selfsacrifice, extraordinary
grasp of public questions, singular
creative power. and unfinching firm
ness, combined with the gentlest ant
simplest nature, and a sincere ant
quiet piety. Such friend to the
cause Of the people, such q servan
to New Zealand, the colony will no
see again for many year.-[Auc
land Herald.